Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

by Michal Zalewski

Overview

Author Michal Zalewski has long been known and respected in the hacking and security communities for his intelligence, curiosity and creativity, and this book is truly unlike anything else out there. In Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks, Zalewski shares his expertise and experience to explain how computers and networks work, how information is processed and delivered, and what security threats lurk in the shadows. No humdrum technical white paper or how-to manual for protecting one's network, this book is a fascinating narrative that explores a variety of unique, uncommon and often quite elegant security challenges that defy classification and eschew the traditional attacker-victim model.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781593270933
Publisher:	No Starch Press
Publication date:	04/05/2005
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Michal Zalewski is a security researcher who has worked on topics ranging from hardware and OS design principles to networking. He has published research on many security topics and has worked for the past eight years in the InfoSec field for a number of reputable companies, including two major telecommunications firms.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
  
• Foreword
  
• Introduction
  
• The Source
  
  • Chapter 1: I Can Hear You Typing
    
  • Chapter 2: Extra Efforts Never Go Unnoticed
    
  • Chapter 3: Ten Heads of the Hydra
    
  • Chapter 4: Working for the Common Good
    
  
  
  
  
• Safe Harbor
  
  • Chapter 5: Blinkenlights
    
  • Chapter 6: Echoes of the Past
    
  • Chapter 7: Secure in Switched Networks
    
  • Chapter 8: Us versus Them
    
  
  
  
  
• Out in the Wild
  
  • Chapter 9: Foreign Accent
    
  • Chapter 10: Advanced Sheep-Counting Strategies
    
  • Chapter 11: In Recognition of Anomalies
    
  • Chapter 12: Stack Data Leaks
    
  • Chapter 13: Smoke and Mirrors
    
  • Chapter 14: Client Identification: Papers, Please!
    
  • Chapter 15: The Benefits of Being a Victim
    
  
  
  
  
• The Big Picture
  
  • Chapter 16: Parasitic Computing, or How Pennies Add Up
    
  • Chapter 17: Topology of the Network
    
  • Chapter 18: Watching the Void
    
  
  
  
  
• Closing Words
  
• Bibliographic Notes
  
• Updates